Tags for this video have been changed from 'bass, music, street, musician, Gustavo, Dalfarra' to 'bass, music, street, musician, Gustavo, Dalfarra, barcelona, spain' - edited by silvercord

Tags for this video have been changed from 'bass, music' to 'bass, music, street, musician, Gustavo, Dalfarra' - edited by silvercord

From Tube: A group of disabled Congolese musicians is threatening to take the United Nations peacekeeping mission to court over a song for last year's elections.
Let's Go and Vote was played repeatedly in the run-up to last year's historic polls on radio and TV stations.

In a country where a third of the population is illiterate and with crumbling infrastructure, the song is credited with boosting turn-out to 70%.

But the eight members of the Staff Benda Bilili band were paid $50 each.

The UN has denied any responsibility for paying royalties.

On the video clip that became a hit, the street musicians appeared in their wheelchairs, dancing the rumba and urging people to "go and vote" for a brighter future in DR Congo.

"It is thanks to our song that people went and voted but Monuc [UN Mission in DR Congo] did not pay us and we are still forced to sleep and beg in the streets. This is slavery," said band leader Nzale Makembo.

'Fraud'

Most of the band are polio victims, who sleep rough next to the barbed wire fence which surrounds the Monuc headquarters in Kinshasa's dirty city centre.

looks like he didn't get completely ignored. and to be fair, perhaps violin isn't exactly the best attention getting instrument in a place frequented by panhandlers and street musicians who play a livelier tune.

BTW, the song is 'The River'.

From...

http://thinkorthwim.com/2007/04/12/bruce-springsteen-disguised-as-street-musician/

A search for "Super Bad Brad" and I see that he is a primarly a street musician in NYC. Here's his story on youtube.

Wow.

Thanks for the info Baqueta!